Last week on Harry’s Place, Rev. Nick Howard critiqued Stephen Sizer for linking to antisemitic websites and pushing antisemitic theories. Howard also took Sizer’s bishop, the Bishop of Guildford Christopher Hill to task, for not considering Sizer’s conduct to merit any disciplinary action.
Now Stephen Sizer has chosen to link to another racist website.
Says Sizer:
That is the provocative view of Uri Avnery, writing on the Redress website today in How Israel helped Islamist movements to flourish across the Middle East
The Redress website publishes articles by Gilad Atzmon such as “British Zionists’ hypocritical view of suffering and the Holocaust“ and “Yad Va’ Shame on You!”, pieces containing phrases such as:
For years Israelis and Zionists have been pumping Shoah [Holocaust] into our veins by using every possible propaganda outlet: media, education, Hollywood, music, literature, billboards and so on.
Seemingly, they have been very successful: We are all properly “Holocausted”. We accept the suffering of the Jewish people – and we have even managed to draw a universal message from it all.
and:
Yehuda Bauer himself proves that the Hamas Charter is a genuine description of Jewish tribal activism.
The Redress website has published dozens of pieces in support of Atzmon’s new book, The Wandering Who, and frequently posts Atzmon’s writings. The Wandering Who claims that Fagin and Shylock accurately represent Jewish identity, the credit crunch was caused by the Jews, the Holocaust is a religion, and Hitler may be proved right about the Jews.
The Redress website has previously published the email contact details of people in the UK who are sympathetic to Israel, linking to Gilad Atzmon’s website for analysis about Anthony Julius. Religion blogger Richard Bartholomew wrote in 2009:
[A]s analysis it is a joke – people support Israel for all kinds of reasons, and the idea that they must be “Israel’s agents” is as nonsensical as the suggestion that anyone who is pro-Palestinian must be “Palestine’s agents”. Further, the claim that they are “of influence” is simply a meaningless assertion. Articles on the same site describe these persons as “Israel’s stooges”, and this abusive term is now popping up on some of the dimmer pro-Palestinian websites that have been impressed by the document.
Redress hosts an attack on Sizer’s fellow Anglicans who are pro-Israel, penned by Stuart Littlewood:
You should also see the sort of stuff the Anglican Friends of Israel post on their website. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking it was actually penned by the crapaganda unit in Tel Aviv. These Anglicans (if they are Anglicans) swallowed Israel’s poisonous concoction hook, line and sinker and rebroadcast it while the abducted flotilla aid workers – witnesses to the murderous assault and executions – were incarcerated in Israeli jails and unable to tell the outside world what really happened. I don’t know of any danger to us from Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran, if those are the “terror” sources referred to.
Redress has also called on Christians to begin another Crusade:
Logging off from the Church has crossed my mind also, but for different reasons. For me it’s the realization that Western Christendom doesn’t really give a damn about the Holy Land and its people, and couldn’t care less that it is being stolen by Zionists who are unwilling to live there in harmony with other faiths. These violent intruders want the entire place for themselves – exclusively – and they are willing to murder, pillage, destroy, ethnically cleanse, and stoop to all manner of inhuman crimes to snatch it, in the name of worldwide Jewry.
Most people in the West, including Christians in their leafy suburbs, turn a blind eye. They are possibly ignorant, but more likely they are misinformed by those who have a twisted view of the scriptures and now swell the ranks of Zionist sympathizers while still posing as devout Christians. The hang out in groups like Christian Friends of Israel and Anglican Friends of Israel, which are part of the wider Friends of Israel network that has its stooges embedded at all levels in our political, business, religious and social fabric.
Back in the days of the Crusades the Archbishops of Canterbury included Christian men of action like Baldwin and Hubert Walter, who donned armour and took up their sword to fight the good fight (as they saw it) for their belief in the Holy City and what it stood for. Times are different now, but unless the Western Church shows firmer leadership and more grit it will lose the Holy Land and more of its followers will renounce their baptism.
Bishop Hill’s decision to dismiss Rev. Howard’s complaint is looking increasingly farcical.
